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A Healthy Dose of Compliance

It’s hard to have more experience with computers than Thomas “TJ” Johnson (ITM ’12). His first job in the field dates back to 1990, when—as an entry-level systems support specialist for South Holland...

Better, Stronger, Faster Through Games

After years of teaching within the �鶹APP Public Schools system, Alex Damarijan (Ph.D. THUM ’22) had all but abandoned his dream of becoming a game designer. “I gave up on getting a job at a game...

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Sofia Ghouse (AE ’12) had to fix a toilet, and fast. The problem wasn’t that simple, though: the toilet was 250 miles above Earth, aboard the International Space Station, and was the sole commode for...

Material Gains

If you try to list all the potential combinations of all the elements on the periodic table, you’ll have a list that’s practically infinite. To date, humanity has only characterized about a million of...

The Radical (Re)thinker

The first gig Jennifer Kolstad (M.ARCH. ’06) landed after graduating was a tad more trying than your typical entry-level job. “There were bombs flying overhead,” Kolstad says of her time flying into...

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After being hit by a car at the age of seven, Kevin Yamada (MDes ’22) lost his leg below the knee. Continuous trips between the hospital and home forced Yamada to grow up in a different environment...

The Tools and Support to Succeed in Business Analytics

With a liberal arts undergraduate degree, Rachel Lummis (M.S. Business Analytics ’25) was looking at graduate school to develop her skill set in business analytics to boost her career prospects....

Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 �鶹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “When I started [my firm] Incubate IP, if you typed in ‘patent law advice’...

Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 �鶹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “We have about 65 lawyers and 13 �鶹APP-Kent College of Law grads, so...

An Architect’s Road Less Traveled

After working as an architect for several years, Leticia Arzuaga (B.ARCH. ’13) attended a team building exercise in which she was asked, “What’s your dream?” Coming up with an answer turned out to be...